Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, "'Andrew Reilly'" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <200109270449.f8R4nP771287@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:43:40 PDT." <200109242043.f8OKheR16906@ptavv.es.net> References: <200109242043.f8OKheR16906@ptavv.es.net>
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In message <200109242043.f8OKheR16906@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: : > Are IANA/IETF/Internet standards EVER applicable to what goes on inside : > our computers? Or just to the data crossing our Internet interfaces? : > (Not rhetorical - I'm wondering.) : : No. This is explicitly stated in an early RFC (although I have no idea : which one any more). If it does not leave a system, no standard RFC is : relevant. That is one reason that the handling of 127/8 is limited to : the statement that it should not appear as a destination of any packet : leaving the system. Well, to be pedantic, there are several RFCs that describe host progamming APIs. Those are relevant to what happens inside the host :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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